Reconductoring Could Help Solve America’s Looming Grid Crisis

America’s electricity grid is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Power demand is growing for the first time in decades as new load comes online from a manufacturing renaissance powered by the Inflation Reduction Act, surging data center usage driven by AI, and electrification of vehicles and buildings. Meanwhile we’re living through the hottest years in recorded history and suffering from extreme weather impacts, both caused by the fossil fuels worsening climate change. Thousands of gigawatts worth of new clean energy projects have been proposed to meet this...